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The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration have birthed another boondoggle—a Uranium Capabilities Replacement Project slated to run billions of dollars over budget and 20 years behind schedule. It’s long past time to see if there isn’t a better solution. 

What the Syria crisis tells us.

An environmental activist’s e-book unpersuasively argues for 800 new nuclear power plants as the solution to climate change, making many of the same mistakes as the film Pandora’s Promise.

The idea that intervention will make America safer is wrong-headed.

The evacuation plans governments draw up in case of a nuclear accident or attack may not work.

Chemical weapons and national security experts assess the situation in Syria and suggest ways in which the United States and the international community might proceed, in light of what would—if proven true—be the most extensive use of chemical weapons in the Syrian uprising.

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After nuclear accidents, radioactive contamination migrates from forests into soil. Officials at Fukushima and Chernobyl have taken completely different approaches to decontamination.

The National Biosurveillance Science and Technology Roadmap provides important information, but doesn’t describe a clear route toward improved decision making during a public health emergency.

Nuclear fusion’s roots in weapons research may work against its development as a civilian energy source.